AN: After much computer related difficulty, here's finally the Baskerville rewrite. Thank you so much for your reviews, I hope you'll like this one as well. As a bonus feature (and in order to make it more scientific), there's a quick commentary at the end, explaining the alterations. Similar explanations may appear in the other chapters in due time. Enjoy!

The Hounds of Baskerville

1.

"It's a strange place, the Hollow. Makes you feel cold inside, so afraid- "

Sherlock lets out a frustrated sigh and rolls his eyes. "Yes, if I wanted poetry I'd read John's e-mails to his last girlfriend, it's much funnier."

John frowns in disbelief. "I deleted those years ago- "

Sherlock ignores him, still keeping his eyes on Henry. "What did you see?"

2.

"Sorry we couldn't get a double room for you boys."

"That's fine." John prods the barman a bit more for information until a man in chef's attire shows up behind the bar. The barman turns to him. "I was just saying we've been rushed off our feet, Billy."

"Yeah, lots of monster hunters. Doesn't take much these days, one mention on twitter and oomph." He turns to the barkeep- "We're out of WKD" - then back to John. "What with the monster and the ruddy prison, I don't know how we sleep at nights. Do you, Gary?"

The barkeep puts a reassuring hand on Billy's shoulder. "Like a baby."

Billy doesn't let him off the hook, though. "That's not true." He turns to John again. "He's a snorer." Gary tries to shush him, but is ignored."Is yours a snorer?"

John chuckles, but casts a slightly nervous glance at Gary. "Well, I'd rather he snored than take over the bed."

3.

Having realized what the 'Morse code' really was, John turns to walk back. He gets a text from Sherlock.

Henry's therapist currently in Cross Keyes pub /S

SO?

Interview her?

WHY SHOULD I?

In reply, Sherlock sends him a picture of the woman, clearly thinking that her looks will appeal to him. This causes John to finally speak out loud. "What the hell?"

4.

"How about Louise Mortimer, did you get anywhere with her?"

"No."

"Too bad. Did you get any information?"

John stops and turns toward Sherlock on his heel. "You actually set me up with her?"

Sherlock looks uncertain. "I thought you'd appreciate the gesture."

This causes John to lift his hand to his face and let out a frustrated sigh. "Gesture?" He looks up at Sherlock. "You're not supposed to... Sherlock, have you actually heard of monogamy? Is that an alien concept to you?"

Sherlock frowns at him, a bit confounded. "You never said it applied to us."

Exasperated, John turns around and starts walking away. After a beat, Sherlock runs after him.

"John!"

"No, it's fine. You're right…"

But Sherlock is already shifting gears. "What happened last night, something happened to me, something I haven't experienced before…"

5.

"Listen, what happened to me in the lab..."

There's a split second between that sentence and Sherlock reaching out to fiddle with John's collar – to the unobservant it could look like Sherlock hadn't heard him at all. "Is that a new shirt?"

John, in turn ignores the question. "I mean, I haven't been to the hollow, so how come I heard those things? Fear and stimulus, you said."

Sherlock moves closer and continues to play with John's collar and stroking his shoulders and back, providing a seemingly distracted reply. "You must've been dosed with it elsewhere, when you went into the lab maybe. You saw those pipes, pretty ancient, leaky as a sieve. They were carrying the gas, so..." He trails off, looking up at John. "It suits you"

John, however, is still focused on the drug. "Hang on. You thought it was in the sugar. You were convinced it was in the sug-"

John finds himself kissed into silence, and suddenly the pieces fall into place. He breaks away with a sigh. "Oh god. It was you, you locked me in that bloody lab."

1. The first is one of those scenes easily fixed by changing a word, but there are further implications. Sherlock doesn't just read your e-mail, he reads everything you've ever written!

2. Set in a different context, the awkward conversation turns into more of a bonding session.

3. cutting the scene entirely was a bit too much, and John's a bit too angry to just follow order, so...

4. Sherlock gets to fumble a bit with the unwritten rules of romantic relationships instead.

5. The original scene could have worked anyway, but now Sherlock has access to better diversion tactics than sauce, so I figured he'd use them.